Linda Carucci

Cooking School Secrets for Real World Cooks (eBook, ePUB)

Second Edition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Tips, techniques, shortcuts, sources, inspiration, and answers to frequently asked questions, plus one hundred triple-tested recipes to make you a better cook. Theres no one more qualified than Linda Carucci to reveal the insider secrets and shortcuts that professional chefs use every day. More than just a cookbook, in the ten years since the first edition of Cooking School Secrets for Real World Cooks has made its way into the hands of forty thousand cooks across the United States, this has become an indispensable go-to guide for internal doneness temperatures, what to look for in cooking equipment, and which cooking methods bring out the best in which foods. Each of the one-hundred-plus recipes was tested at least three times, each time by a different cook unprecedented for a cookbook. Recipe testers comments and feedback inspired the books widely praised Sidebars and Recipe Secrets scattered throughout: Whats that green tinge on my potatoes? (Solanine . . . and its toxic.) How can I prepare risotto for company without being held hostage in the kitchen? (Learn restaurant chefs tips and techniques in Secrets to Successful Risotto.) Whats the fuss about all these different salts? (Join Linda as she takes you on a guided tasting of todays most commonly used cooking saltsand spills the beans about why chefs have certain favorites.) Youll appreciate the authors warmth and expertise as a teacher as she takes you step by step through the preparation of classics like Roasted Stuffed Turkey with Pan Gravy, My Grandmothers Baked Stuffed Manicotti with Twenty-Minute Tomato Sauce, and Apple Crisp with Bourbon and SpIce Cream. And then its on to sensational show-stoppers such as Paella with Shellfish, Sausage, and Chicken; Double-Crusted Timpano with Fusilli, Ricotta, and Tender Little Meatballs; and White Chocolate Cheesecake with Oreo Crust and Raspberry Coulis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504983617
• Artikelnr.: 52601249

Autorenporträt

The former dean of the California Culinary Academy (also her alma mater) for the past thirty years, Linda Carucci has enjoyed a celebrated career as a culinary instructor of both chefs-in-training and home cooks of all levels. Besides cooking in and managing restaurants, Carucci has operated her own cooking school and catering business and has worn many hats in the culinary world, including as live-in private chef for a prominent San Francisco family and stagire with Lidia Bastianich at Felidia restaurant in New York. Chef Carucci served as Julia Child Curator of Food Arts at COPIA in Napa Valley when the critically acclaimed first edition of her Cooking School Secrets for Real World Cooks was published in 2005. The book received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was a finalist for both James Beard and Julia Child First Book Awards. Now, four printings and forty thousand copies later, Carucci is pleased to present this second edition in two updated formats: a print copy in larger type and a new eBook version. Among her accolades, Carucci is the winner of the International Association of Culinary Professionals Cooking Teacher of the Year Award. She was recently named Educator of the Year by Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, and she has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Francisco Professional Food Society. Carucci earned a masters degree in education and a level-2 certificate from the Wine and Spirit Education Trust. The granddaughter of an Italian cheese maker, she was raised in New England and now lives in Oakland, California, where she gives private cooking lessons. She teaches avocational cooking classes in San Francisco Bay Area cooking schools and beyondlook for her calendar of cooking classes at www.cookingschoolsecrets.com.